#profound bond

[strawlessandbraless]

The range

Part 1 // Part 2

[khropnos]

Sometimes I have an idea that is so clear that I'm not sure if it's my idea or a memory of something I've seen.

Anyway, here's Cas yoinking Dean out of hell.

[d0gwithabr0kenleg]

silly cas stuff <:

[dontlikeconflict]

One of the things I love most about Cas saying "Dean and I do share a more profound bond" is that afterwards he turns to Dean and says "I wasn't gonna mention it" as if in his mind he was keeping it a well guarded secret that he liked Dean better as a kindness to Sam, as if it wasn't painfully obvious to anyone who knew them.

Also the turn to Dean when he says it, as if Dean is fully aware of this 'secret' that Cas is holding back to spare Sam's feelings.

[blanchcz]

MY DESTIEL FANART

Some time ago, I found some old stacks of canvas and sketchbooks from school twenty years ago, which I used for my year-end projects in art and design classes. They were made of this super rough paper that was amazing to draw on with a soft graphite pencil, and even after erasing with rubber, the quality didn't deteriorate like it does with regular paper.

Of course, in February 2024, I couldn't think of anything more stupid than to set myself a superhuman task. And in my new obsession with Destiel, to draw the two of them.

Once again, I realized how different pencil drawing and digital painting on a tablet are. I just can't do it right with a tablet. It's a completely different style of drawing, a different way of looking at the whole concept. With a pencil, it's just more intuitive (and I won't lie, the photo that was the model also helped a lot, of course).

The original image has been edited a few times in Photoshop because I had some things crooked, especially in the faces, some parts were blurry, and I added intensity, saturation, and dynamic strokes to make it stand out better.

Almost two years, nerves shot to hell, the urge to tear it up a hundred times... And now I'm still messing around with the idea of trying to redraw it digitally. I don't know if it was more therapeutic or if it robbed me of my sanity :D P.S. I love white pencil lead <3 You can follow my works on my InstaGram

[maneatermatthews]

Adam being able to see Michael’s true form is something so insane to me. Because even Dean who is supposed to be Michael’s true vessel and supposedly the ‘Ferrari of vessels’ couldn’t handle it and had to cover his eyes. Even in Lazarus rising when cas tries to communicate to Dean through his true form, it didn’t work, so we know this isn’t JUST a profound bond thing. Just think about the insane spiritual connection they would have to have. Adam might have not been made for michael but he was and always has been meant for him.

[cloudofsmokes]

Everybody remembers how Cas saved Dean from Hell, but I hope nobody forgets the fact that Dean was torturing souls there, he had already, although regretfully, taken up the task of being the torturer in Hell before he was rescued. So, when Cas went to Hell to save Dean, Dean wasn't getting tortured, Cas saw that. He might have questioned Heaven's intentions then too, why would Heaven want him, a righteous angel, to save a corrupted soul. But he did it anyway, his last act as the soldier of Heaven. Once he saw the human Dean was, Cas realised that maybe not everything is black and white, everything around him were shades of colors that Heaven refused to let him see. It wasn't just good or bad, it was all the emotions you could feel and choosing the one, in that moment, felt righteous.

Heaven gave him his first taste of Free Will, to choose to save a man down in Hell. And he has been running away with it ever since. And in the process, he fell in love with the human who let him see what freedom or the illusion of it felt like. And above all, he saw that Humanity wasn't just apes robed in stupid choices, but a multitude of possibilities for the universe to manifest itself in. And that's what he meant when he said "You changed me, Dean." He saw the whole world through the chronicles of Dean Winchester's eyes, he felt the touch of humanity through him. That's where his happiness lied.

[anglofthel0rd]

I hate when people say that Dean didn't reciprocate feelings for Castiel, or that it is clear that Castiel loved Dean more than Dean loved him, because that is simply not true!

Dean Winchester: the man who loves with literally everything that he has to offer. His body, the way he cares for others, every sacrifice he's made- even in his anger, he's so full of love.

His soul shone so brightly that, at least in one universe, an angel literally fell for him.

Chuck said that in every other universe, it was Castiel that did what he was told to do. Dean could've hosted his own rebellion in any other universe, or he may have said yes to Michael for any reason, but that was not dependent on his capacity to give love to others. He was not the one who needed to learn humanity, he's the embodiment of it.

That small glimpse we got of Endverse Dean and Cas' dynamics proves enough to me that in every other universe, it was Dean who loved, or could have loved Castiel. If we had a glimpse of more universes, I would bet that Dean displays a level of love towards any version of Castiel that came to him, and his actions from then on out were determined by the Castiel that he received.

So no, I'm not falling for the bullshit that Dean didn't love Castiel as much as Castiel loved Dean.

In my humble, (but correct) opinion, Dean loved Castiel in every universe.

Castiel just finally loved Dean back in the universe we got to see.